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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · 19h

How did the US become what it has become? Serious answers only.

👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago October 2025.......

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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · Sep 2

Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship | Christs College Cambridge

www.christs.cam.ac.uk

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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · Sep 2

Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship | Christs College Cambridge

www.christs.cam.ac.uk

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Beverley Loke @beverleyloke.bsky.social · Jul 30

Truly delighted that our (co-edited with Ralf Emmers) @austjia.bsky.social Special Issue on ‘Coalition-Building and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in the Indo-Pacific’ is now out (Vol 79, Issue 4), with many articles Open Access!

www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/7...

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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · Jul 29

Upon the public announcement of one embarrassing British international legal position today, here’s another, historical (1964) one I just retrieved from the UK national archives. So-when did the position change, re UNSC resolutions’ binding character? Or am I missing some lawyerly nuance?

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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · Jun 26

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

Are we witnessing the death of international law?

The long read: A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold it

www.theguardian.com

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Jun 24

Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say, and likely only set it back "months" (while also possibly empowering hardliners and radicalizing the regime and sparking a rally-around-the-flag effect and)

Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say | CNN Politics

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an e...

www.cnn.com

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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · Jun 21

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

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Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu

From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet.

Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off

They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it.

Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others

Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · Jun 23

"The [] rise of authoritarianism at home is precipitating a kind of international authoritarianism, in which the American president can unleash the most powerful military the world has ever known on a whim."

Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · Jun 23

My latest, in @nytimes.com:

The Danger of an Unrestrained President to the World

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Opinion | The Danger of an Unrestrained President to the World

www.nytimes.com

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Antje Wiener @antjewiener.bsky.social · Jun 23

observer.co.uk/news/interna...
👉🏻“The rules of international law have not changed since Iraq. (They allow military force …) in two circumstances: if authorised by the Security Council (…) or in “exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs” .

Philippe Sands: International law does not permit regime ...

Diplomacy needs to continue and the rules followed, says barrister and professor of law Philippe Sands

observer.co.uk

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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · Jun 23

The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said the United States strikes on Iran are not against international law.

He is completely wrong.

No Security Council authorisation. No actual or imminent armed attack triggering self-defence under the UN Charter.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWa...

Iran must not develop a nuclear weapon: NATO chief Mark Rutte

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

www.youtube.com

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · Jun 23

This @justsecurity.org post on the illegality of Israel's attack on Iran by @adhaque.bsky.social is brilliant.

It dismantles the 2 arguments for Israel's position that have created the false appearance of a legal debate, where none is apposite.

Israel launched an illegal aggression.

Just Security @justsecurity.org · Jun 19

Indefensible: Israel’s Unlawful Attack on Iran

By Professor @adhaque.bsky.social

#UNCharter #UNSC

Part of our ongoing series on the #IsraelIranWar

Indefensible: Israel’s Unlawful Attack on Iran

Legal scholars assess how the UN Charter and international law applies to Israel's strike on Iran's nuclear and other facilities.

www.justsecurity.org

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · Jun 19

"The question is not whether starving people should receive aid from GHF or be left to die. That binary is the product manufactured by Israel's famine & dire humanitarian crisis, in which existing rights-based aid infrastructures were deliberately obstructed." www.ejiltalk.org/privatizing-...

Privatizing Aid: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Affair

Israel and its allies have introduced quite a number of legal and political configurations over the past 19 months that even the most creative Jessup moot court problem writers would not dare to imagi...

www.ejiltalk.org

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · Jun 19

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Gaza’s engineered famine: stop arming the slaughter – or lose the rule of law | Editorial

Editorial: As Palestinians starve amid the rubble, western governments defend Israel, fund armed aid and dismantle the very rules they claim to uphold

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · Jun 18

Israel has submitted something like an Article 51 letter to the UN for its attack on Iran.

The letter both alludes to self-defense and an ongoing armed conflict with Iran.

Claims it is responding to an "imminent threat" from Iran.

US response to Israel's 1981 attack on Osirak is instructive:

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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · Apr 24

Check out this new @ejir.bsky.social article by Zikun Yang, who's writing richer histories and theory abt China's performance across key areas of multilateralism @campolis.bsky.social based on primary research in multiple countries and languages. She's on the academic job market too - hire her!

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · Apr 22

Extremely thrilled to share that my article "The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis) satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972" is now published #openaccess in @ejir.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1177/1354...! (1/n)

The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis)satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972 - Zikun Yang, 2025

How does status dissatisfaction shape a state’s behavior? Existing literature suggests that mistreatment and misconception by the great powers could elicit a st...

doi.org

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places

Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?

@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵

osf.io/rtymv

Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics and Backlashagainst International Cooperation by Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese.

This paper investigates the conditions under which subnational concerns shape public assessments of international climate governance. In line with existing literature, we maintain that costly policy adjustments fuel negative views of international cooperation in policy exposed regions. At the same time, we argue that the more resentful relations are with the national center of politics, the more sympathetic these regions areto international institutions and global governance. Based on geographically targeted survey data from theUnited Kingdom, we find that fossil fuel-intensive regions with strong, institutionalized regional politics have more positive assessments of international climate cooperation than structurally similar regions where regional political institutions are less pronounced. The findings show that regional politics characteristics are key for understanding climate policy beliefs among citizens that bear the brunt of adjustments to international climate agreements

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · May 26

Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires0- University of Cambridge - Department of History of Art #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND932/a...

Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires at University of Cambridge

Discover Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · May 22

Israel’s serial blockades of Gaza—and the justifications it has offered for imposing them—have become a major test for international law, writes @boydvandijk.bsky.social.

Israel, Gaza, and the Starvation Weapon

The ICC tests a rarely prosecuted war crime.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · Apr 24

Check out this new @ejir.bsky.social article by Zikun Yang, who's writing richer histories and theory abt China's performance across key areas of multilateralism @campolis.bsky.social based on primary research in multiple countries and languages. She's on the academic job market too - hire her!

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · Apr 22

Extremely thrilled to share that my article "The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis) satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972" is now published #openaccess in @ejir.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1177/1354...! (1/n)

The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis)satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972 - Zikun Yang, 2025

How does status dissatisfaction shape a state’s behavior? Existing literature suggests that mistreatment and misconception by the great powers could elicit a st...

doi.org

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Apr 17

❗️ New publication alert!

A new article from @smetanamichal.bsky.social and @profonderco.bsky.social found that despite Kremlin’s belligerent rhetoric and calls for nuclear strikes, public support for using nuclear weapons against NATO has remained unchanged post-invasion. @journalofgss.bsky.social

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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · Mar 19

Thanks to @maddow.msnbc.com for highlighting the takeover of the US Institute of Peace on her show last night. It's not a govt agency, the building isn't a govt building, the employees aren't govt employees, and Trump can't fire the board and install a new acting CEO. www.npr.org/2025/03/18/g...

What is the U.S. Institute of Peace and why is Trump trying to shut it down?

Founded during the Cold War to project American soft power and foreign policy expertise, the federally funded nonprofit think tank is now in the White House's crosshairs.

www.npr.org

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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · Mar 19

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